Profile
Dr.Abdullah Alkhodair is a consultant in interventional cardiology, Structural heart diseases and Pulmonary Hypertension. He is the adult Cardiology program director at King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and currently is the Associate Vice President of the Medical Service Lines in the Riyadh 2nd Health Cluster.
After graduating with honors from King Saud University, Riyadh, he completed his Internal medicine residency and adult cardiology fellowship. Dr. AlKhodair is American Board certified in Internal Medicine, and cardiovascular diseases, in addition to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Certificates in internal medicine and Cardiology. After this, he completed a 1-year fellowship in pulmonary hypertension followed by a 2-year fellowship in interventional and structural heart diseases at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Dr. Alkhodair is very active in medical education and has participated in multiple conference and courses locally and internationally, with over 20 publications in high impact journals in the field of cardiology and pulmonary hypertension.
Core Competencies
- Evaluation of Chest pain, Shortness of breath and palpitation
- Coronary artery disease and intervention
- Systemic hypertension and dyslipidemia
- Valvular heart diseases and transcatheter valve intervention
- Pulmonary hypertension
Qualifications
- MBBS King Saud University
- Canadian and American boards in Internal medicine
- Canadian and America boards in adult Cardiology
- Fellowship in Pulmonary hypertension, University of British Columbia
- Fellowship in interventional cardiology/ structuralheart diseases, University of British Columbia
